E-mail sent to me by Eric Pretorius: """ While the "Gentoo Printing Guide" does a better job of explaining the installation of CUPS and Gimp-Print than the any/all of the linuxprinting.org documentation, there are a few things that are missing IMHO: 1. There's no reference to loading the parallel port printer module (.../kernel/drivers/char/lp.o). 2. No directions are given to emerge gimp-print. I may have mis-stepped though: I emerged cups and gimp-print and cups first and *then* emerged foomatic when I had troubles with foomatic-configure (because only foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine had been emerged with cups and gimp-print). Maybe if I had emerged cups and gimp-print *first* (as directed) gimp-print would have been installed as a dependancy? 3. HPIJS is mentioned explicitly in Section 3, "Special Printer Drivers", but otherwise no mention is made to HPIJS. (e.g., "emerge hpijs") These are minor nit-picks, though. Using the "Gentoo Printing Guide" I was able to configure my Epson Stylus C60 and my HP LaserJet 4P with relative ease. Thank you! """
- modprobe lp exists - directions to install additional drivers exist - the guide is filled with hpijs examples
